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There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
The sun may set and rise: But we contrariwise Sleep after our short light One everlasting night.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done....
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O eloquent, just, and mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world ...
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have,...
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But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by...
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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what they have by craft or cruelty gained, to cover the foulness of their fact, they call purchase, as a name more honest. Howsoever, he that for want of will or wit useth not those means, must rest in servitude and poverty.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
PASSIONS are liken'd best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb; So, when affection yields discourse, it seems The bottom is but shallow whence they come. They that are rich in words, in words discover That they are poor in that which makes a lover.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
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But it is hard to know them from friends, they are so obsequious and full of protestations; for a wolf resembles a dog, so doth a flatterer a friend.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
The difference between a rich man and a poor man is this -- the former eats when he pleases, and the latter when he can get it.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Speaking much is a sign of vanity, for he that is lavish with words is a niggard in deed.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
Above all things, be not made an ass to carry the burdens of other men if any friend desire thee to be his surety, give him a part of what thou has to spare if he presses thee further, he is not thy friend at all.
By Sir Walter Raleigh
'Tis a sharp medicine, but it will cure all that ails you. -- last words before his beheadding
By Sir Walter Raleigh